Obviously these may or not work depending on your seniority but here are a few ideas you may want to research once the bidding window opens. I don't have PBS access now but there are a few ways to do it:

The best way is probably to set condition "Minimum Credit."

If you are senior enough to bid for specific trips you can pick the trips you want (or enough generic trips to barely get you above the Line Construction Window minimum) and then bid "avoid trips that credit > 0."

This will prevent PBS from putting additional trips on your line after you reached the minimum line credit.

Either of the above will try to build you a minimum credit line. You then have to insert something that will start a reserve bid group if your bids are not honored.

I have had good luck with the "Else start next Bid Group." I think there might be some other ways to this but I don't recall the specific commands.

Anyway with the above in mind review the PBS bidding gouge or call the PBS bid assist guys once they are available. You can also search Youtube for some of the PBS Bid Assist videos.

Good Luck - Scoop

 

1. Start Pairings
2. Set Condition Minimum Credit Else Start Next Bid Group'
3. Avoid Bad Stuff
4. Award Good Stuff
Award Pairings
5. Start Reserve
6. Prefer Off Desired Days

...or something to that effect. Another option could be not to have PBS go to reserve if it can't give you a min credit line, and take your chances trying to drop on the Swap Board and in PCS. In spite of lots of weekend unstacking PBS for June in my category, I managed to drop two weekend trips -- one in PCS and one on the Swap Board.

I have the schedule I want, even though I couldn't get it in PBS, and I'm not on reserve.

 

Fixed it for ya...

 

Take a hard look at what AAL is doing. They essentially have 3 bands now. The middle band 757/767 (currently 161 airframes) is the one with the shortest life expectancy which of course leaves only 2. The high pay band only has orders for an additional 42 aircraft, while the lowest band has orders for 420. The net result is that the career earnings average will be dropping as airplanes are retired (75/76) and replacements (A320/321/737X) come on line.


Interesting.

Data from AAL website.

 

I wish someone would come back and promote Longevity Based Pay (LBP) based on the logic of career earnings vs. airplane/seat size.


Elliot

 

Instead of casting stones, how about you take two minutes to look for yourself.

If I were looking for other airlines pay scales , where would I look? The logical thing would be to take a look at the contract comparison that's posted on the DALPA website... let's take a peek and see how current it is:



I'd say that answers your question as to if ALPA is hiding or sharing American's pay from you.

 

I heard here was some guy that was championing that at one time but got shouted down by the productivity crowd so he's not interested in making that argument any more. I would say however, he had a pretty good point. Funny, but I have heard a lot of junior folks talking about it as of late.

 

Here ya go

 

100% Agree.

Baja.

 

I think he also took a few good points from the "what would happen to our SLI if we merged with another carrier" crowd.


The same points apply to pay banding.